On the role of disturbance estimation in H8 control systems

In this paper, based on the analysis of H" controllers, an interesting and crucial observation concerning the structure of the H" control systems is obtained. Due to this observation, closed-loop H" control systems can be clearly described as a disturbance estimator which is used to diminish the effect of exogeneous input on the output. A clear representation of the feedforward-feedback structure of H" controller is established.